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21 Jul 2010

Ceramic World Review unveils the rankings of the world’s largest ceramic tile and sanitaryware producers

Rak group (United Arab Emirates) tops the ranking by tile output volumes. Marazzi Group leads the value-based ranking, which is dominated by Italian companies. Roca Group is the number one world sanitaryware manufacturer

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10 Jun 2010

The ceramic machinery sector confirms its focus on exports

Market share and international reach remain unchanged. Europe continues to be the key market. Increase in export shares to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (+29.9%).

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10 Jun 2010

Ceramic machinery industry: 2010 almost stable

A year of substantial stability is forecast in spite of a small recovery in orders in the first quarter of 2010

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9 Jun 2010

The worst year in the history of the Italian ceramic machinery industry

Acimac’s 18th Statistical Survey reveals a 33.0% fall in turnover to 1,240.8 million euro against the 1,825.5 million euro of 2008.

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7 Jun 2010

The Italian tile industry reports first quarter growth

In the first quarter Italian exports were up 2% driven by growth in Asia and USA

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7 Jun 2010

The Italian tile industry’s black 2009

Production dropped to 368 million sq.m and turnover fell by a billion euro

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4 Jun 2010

First positive signs for the Spanish ceramic tile industry

After a severe drop in sales in 2009 (29.5% down on 2008), the worst year in the history of the Castellón ceramic cluster, the Spanish ceramic tile industry is beginning to show the first signs of recovery. Exports rose by 7.1% in March, the first increase in 18 months. Although encouraging, this figure was insufficient to prevent the first quarter of 2010 from closing with an overall 3.3% fall in turnover due to the losses in January (-14%) and February (-6.1%).

Although the rise in exports has helped to restore a certain amount of confidence within the sector, Ascer (Spanish ceramic tile manufacturers' association) remains cautious and warns that a return to stability will be strongly dependent on recovery of the key European markets.

The first quarter of 2010 saw a 9.9% fall in sales to the EU (48.9% of total exports), partly offset by a 16.5% increase in the Middle East (15.4% of total exports). This is a very respectable performance considering that in 2009 the ceramic tile manufacturers reported an average fall in turnover in international markets of 25%, down from 3,761 million euro in 2008 to 2,591 million euro last year. The situation in the domestic market continues to cause concern with no signs yet of a recovery. In 2009 the domestic market contracted by 37.12% to just above 900 million euro.

On a further positive note, the official figures published by the Valencian Institute of Statistics (IVE) revealed a 4.5% increase in tile production in March, bringing the average for the quarter to +1.5% (following a 3.2% increase in February). A total fall in production of almost 42% was reported in 2009.